QUOTABLE: Chris Lehman - “I’m looking forward to seeing how our young players step into leadership roles both on and off the court. How fast our young players realize their potential will set the course for our season. … I’ve seen a lot of good L-L League teams at summer leagues and camps. It’ll be another challenging season - as it always is - in our section.”

NOTABLE: Changes aplenty in Blazer Country. We’ll start at the top, where longtime - and super successful - coach Sherri Gorman resigned her post at the end of last season so she could take the head coaching job for Elizabethtown College’s women’s team - where she’s stepping into some huge shoes herself, taking over for living legend Yvonne Kauffman. Gorman left Mennonite with a 147-53 record in her seven seasons on the Blazers’ bench. She guided Mennonite to three section championships, and under Gorman’s watch, the Blazers won the L-L League title in 2008 and the District 3 AAA crown in 2009. … Big change No. 2: Four-year contributor and 1,000-point scorer Jess Rheinheimer moved on to Eastern Mennonite University, where she joined her big sister Steph Rheinheimer - another former Blazers’ standout - on EMU’s hoops roster. Rheinheimer did it all for Mennonite, from running the point to crashing the boards and everything in between. She will be missed. Period. … One of Gorman’s former JV coaches, Chris Lehman, was elevated to head coach, and he inherits a team with just two experienced kids back in the fold: Jada Dunsen provided a major spark off the bench last season, and more times than not she was instant offense when she sprang off the pine. And Aubrey Haller is one of those Mennonite multi-sport athlete kids with a big ticker. The longer last season went on, the more minutes she got. We’ll see how Dunsen and Haller handle starter’s minutes this time around. … A lot of fresh faces flanking that duo, like Mady Reeser (a Pequea Valley transfer; she scored 2.4 points per game and hit eight 3-pointers for the Braves last winter), Carolyn Krassley (who appeared in five games last season) and Shayna Landis (who appeared in six games last season). Welcome to the show, ladies. ... Lehman has surrounded himself with a pair of basketball savvy assistants: Renata Neal played down the road for PSAC power West Chester, and Dani Zeamer is a former Manheim Central and Lancaster Mennonite standout who went on to play for Pitt-Bradford.

REINHART SAYS: This team will look nothing like last season’s squad, which went to the L-L League championship game, finished third in District 3 AA and went to States - which was pretty much status quo for Gorman, who raised the Blazers’ bar higher and higher seemingly every year. Might be tough for this crew to hit that bar, considering all the new faces and lack of experience. Odd typing the words “Lancaster Mennonite girls’ basketball” and “rebuilding season” in the same sentence. But all signs are pointing toward some growing pains in the Blazers’ camp.